Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She had reached the age of seventeen, without having seen one amiable youth who could call forth her sensibility, without having inspired… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
No: the years which had destroyed her youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing, manly, open look, in no… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Which makes his good manners the more valuable. The older a person grows, Harriet, the more important it is that their manners… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It is always good for young people to be put upon exerting themselves; and you know, my dear Catherine, you always were… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Sally, or rather Sarah (for what young lady of common gentility will reach the age of sixteen without altering her name as… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The most charming young man in the world is instantly before the imagination of us all.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The older a person grows, Harriet, the more important it is that their manners should not be bad,—the more glaring and disgusting… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
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